Piracy: ok or not?

[maclypse]

Two questions:

1) Can a Xeno demand that a trader stays out of liberty, and kill any trader that refuses? As far as I can see it's not allowed according to the ID, but... still happened. Once been forced to drop cargo and stay out of liberty - I dropped the cargo as demanded and then was shot down for getting too close to liberty space. Is this ok?

2) Rule 6.21 says you can't engage without RP, an engagement notice. Rule 6.19 says a pirate can deal damage before making any demands. As far as I can see, one does not exclude the other: the pirate can attack before demanding money or cargo, but not until after they initiated some form of RP, like asking them to stop, or sending engagement notice. It seems a lot of pirates on the server has interpreted 6.19 as an override to 6.21 with the meaning: "I can shoot a trader without engagement notice." What's the verdict here? Can they attack without notice, like they do?

mac